I wonder why there is such a negative correlation between creativity and general talent and the kind of people that get attracted to fundamentalist religion. Take out his Atheist writings and Hitchens was still an amazing essayist, Dawkins with his popularisation of science, Stephen Fry! Colbert and Stewart aren't atheists but they accept reality. The list can go on.

Even at a local level, I have about 1000 clients on my list and without exception the creative and the clever are all left leaning.

Kevin is never going to be anything but a hack and an admitted liar. I don't know how anybody could live with themselves just being happy with mediocre

I wonder why there is such a negative correlation between creativity and general talent and the kind of people that get attracted to fundamentalist religion. Take out his Atheist writings and Hitchens was still an amazing essayist, Dawkins with his popularisation of science, Stephen Fry! Colbert and Stewart aren't atheists but they accept reality. The list can go on.

Even at a local level, I have about 1000 clients on my list and without exception the creative and the clever are all left leaning.

Kevin is never going to be anything but a hack and an admitted liar. I don't know how anybody could live with themselves just being happy with mediocre

In my experience, the ability to think is critical to creativity. It's also critical to seeing and understanding reality, which means (in the US) the tendency to move away from the GOP.

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I wonder why there is such a negative correlation between creativity and general talent and the kind of people that get attracted to fundamentalist religion. Take out his Atheist writings and Hitchens was still an amazing essayist, Dawkins with his popularisation of science, Stephen Fry! Colbert and Stewart aren't atheists but they accept reality. The list can go on.

Even at a local level, I have about 1000 clients on my list and without exception the creative and the clever are all left leaning.

Kevin is never going to be anything but a hack and an admitted liar. I don't know how anybody could live with themselves just being happy with mediocre

It has to do with the difference between rules, and a rule-based or authoritarian mentality, and principles, which are guided by open-ended inquiry.

Look up "Maslow's hierarchy of needs." However, be aware of the criticisms of this system, but his is a helpful illustration.

Also, research seems to indicate that "left-wingers" more ably tolerate ambiguity. Right-wing versus left-wing brains. "Right-wingers" tend to be more imitative than innovative. Of course, this is a generalization, and I am always cautious when reading research results reported in the media.

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"I happen to think that this prerequisite criterion of empirical evidence is itself not empirical." - Clive

Of course, this is a generalization, and I am always cautious when reading research results reported in the media.

When discussing the right, it might be helpful to distinguish between authoritarian and libertarian.

Politics make for orthogonal alliances.

Bible-thumpers or solipsists.

The Right is all about Small Government until it comes to telling people (especially women) The Right Way To Live.

Couple of US conservative women on CBC the other day were saying they're voting Republican anyway because of the economy, completely forgetting that if The Right had had its way 100 years ago these women still wouldn't be voting at all.

--------------"But it's disturbing to think someone actually thinks creationism -- having put it's hand on the hot stove every day for the last 400 years -- will get a different result tomorrow." -- midwifetoad

When I see the pictures of the crew I ask myself how much of a coincident is it that they are all male? Are women indeed intellectually superior beings? Or are Miller and his friends just misogynistic twats?

Is Ron Perlman going to be in this one, too? The first one was okay, the second one not so much.

--------------"But it's disturbing to think someone actually thinks creationism -- having put it's hand on the hot stove every day for the last 400 years -- will get a different result tomorrow." -- midwifetoad

A quick note to say "Hellbound?" is doing a sneak preview in Nashville on Sept. 12 and then opening in NYC, Dallas and Minneapolis on Sept. 21. See all of the details here: http://hellboundthemovie.com./....ie.com.

I thought web traffic was when people click on your website, not when you click on someone else's website.

He might think that some of us would be bored enough to click on his website.

<hangs head in shame :( >

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